Reader Review: "Still Alice"
May 8th, 2010 admin
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by Marian Shapiro (Santa Barbara): This is a heart wrenching and heart warming story that takes us through the devastating diagnosis that Alice comes face to face with. It also lets us know how this affects all the other family members and how they find the strength to be supportive and loving of their wife and mom, while she becomes less cognitively present and aware of them.
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